Oil and gas burner for furnaces.



Patented `Aug. 2|, 1900.

f, No., 656,307.

.1, TYLER. UIL AND GAS BURNER FOR FURNACES.

(Applimion medium v, 1897.)

(N0 Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JOSEPH TYLER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CORNELIUS COLLINS, OF SAME PLACE.

OIL-AND GAS BURNER FOR FUNAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,307, dated August21, 1900. Application flied June '1, 1897. sarai No. 639,790. (No maa.)

To all whom, t may concern: and to a branch pipe Z, which latter is alsoBe it known that I, JOSEPH T YLER, a citizen connected to a steam-pipec,which leads from of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in thecylinder O, extends outside of thefurnace,

the county of Allegheny and State of Pennand then enters the furnaceagain at a point 5 Sylvania, have invented certain new and useabove theburner. The pipe c is provided 55 ful Improvements in Oil and Gaslurnersfor with a valve c2 above the connection of the Furnaces, the.; and I dodeclare the folloW- pipe Z, and the latter is also provided with a ingto be a full, clear, and exact description valve c". The steam-supplypipe H is also of the invention, such as will enable others providedwith a valve o.

1o skilled in the art to which it appertains to Such being theconstruction, the operation 6o make and use the same, reference beinghad is as follows: The pan B will be supplied with to the accompanyingdrawing, and to the oil and the latter be ignited. Water will thenletters of reference marked thereon, Which' be admitted slowly to thecylinder O in order forms a part of this specification. that steam maybe generated rapidly, the

[5 'The object of my invention is to improve valves o2, c3, o, and ZJbeing meanwhile closed. 65 the structure and arrangement of oil and gaslVhen steam of sufficient pressure has been burners for furnaces, aswill be hereinafter generated in the cylinder C, the valves l) and fullyset forth, reference heilig had to the acc"E will be opened, therebyadmitting oil and companying drawings, in which is shown, steam to theburner, which Will be discharged 2o partly in section and partly brokenaway, a into the furnace and there ignited. As the 7o portion of afurnace and myimproved burner. furnace becomes heated the valve c2 willalso The furnace is indicated by A and may be be opened to dischargesteam into the higher of any approved form. Vithin the combuspart ofthefurnace, and therebyincrease the tion-chamber a pan B is supported, saidpan combustion of the gases generated in the fur- 25 being preferablylined with asbestos. This nace. This will proceed until the furnace be-7 5 pan is designed to receive a quantity of oil comes hot enough togenerate steam in the to be burned in order to generate steam forCylinder O Without aid from the burning oil use When the burner is firststarted(` Imme in the pan B. When steam has been generdiately over thepan a cylinder Ois supported, ated in the boiler, the valve o may beopened 3o into which a Water-supply pipe O2 leads, said and steam besupplied from the boiler as 8o pipe having a valve c for controlling theflow Well as from the cylinder O, and with the adof Water to thecylinder. ditional supply of steam additional oil maybe The burner iscomposed o f a series of tubuused up to the full capacity of the pipe B.lar sections,(indicated at D,D, D2, D3, D", and It is obvious, however,that the burner will 35 D5,) each section being ofsubstantially-unioperatesuccessfully with steam supplied from 85 formdiameter throughout its length and the the cylinder O only and withoutsteam from successive sections gradually decreasing in the boiler.diameter and being connected together by re- Having described theinvention, I claimducing-couplings. Thesection ofleast diamel. An oil orgas burner for furnaces com- 4o ter enters the furnace, and the outerend of posed of a series of tubular sections, each 9o the larger sectionI) is closed, and through section being of substantially-uniformdiamethis closed end an oil-supply pipe B passes to ter throughout itslength and the successive deliver oil to the interior of the burner, thesections being of gradually-decreasing diame flow of oil being regulatedby a valve b. A ter, the section entering the furnace being of 45steam-supply pipe C also passes through the least diameter and theoutermost section of 95 closed end of the section D to supply steamgreatest diameter, the latter being closed at to the interior of theburner, and the flow of its outer end, reducing-couplings connectingsteam may be controlled by a valve c3. A the several sections together,a steam-supply T-coupling h connects the pipe O to a pipe H, pipeextending through said closed end into 5o which may lead from the boiler(not shown) the burner, and a fuel-supply pipe also eX- xoo tendingthrough Said closed end to deliver fuel to the rear end of the burner,Substantiallyas Set-forth.

2. The combination with a furnace, of a cylinder supported within thefurnace, an oilpan having an absorbent, refractory lining,

Said pan being supported Within the furnacev and below the cylinder topreliminarily heat; the latter, a. Water-Supply pipe leading to thecylinder, a burner extending into the furnace, an oil-pipe leading tothe burner, a Steampipe leading from the cylinder and discharging intothe furnace above the burner, and a branch pipe leading from Said pipeinto the burner, Substantially as Set forth.

In testimony whereof I aiix my Signature in presence of two witnesses. v

JOSEPH VTYLER.

Witnesses:

.CORNELIUS COLLINS, THOMAS J. LAUREL.

